Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

André Maurois (1885 CE-1967 CE), André Maurois was a French author. Maurois was born in Elbeuf and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. A member of the Javal family, Maurois was the son of Ernest Herzog, a Jewish textile manufacturer, and his wife Alice Lévy-Rueff. His family had fled Alsace after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 and took refuge in Elbeuf, where they owned a woollen mil